So I washed out of the Meet Up group. Not really my fault, I think, but just the same, I'm not going any more, which means I'm on my own again, workout-wise. I showed up for Booty Buster Friday at 8 am and waited around and ... nobody. So I figured something happened and it got canceled -- not the first time a meeting has been canceled at the last minute by this group. So as I'm walking the track by myself, I check my email (because I have the technology to do that, finally) and, yes, there was an email entitled "CANCELING BB FRIDAY" sent about 1 am. So now I know why no one is there. Turns out the assistant organizer, let's call her Laura, got food poisoning and couldn't make it. Okay, totally understand the late notice. But, as I'm walking around alone, having spent time getting ready to go there, driving there, and waiting around, I'm thinking, why cancel the whole deal? The point of the group is just a bunch of motivated people meeting to work out, and Laura had already emailed the entire planned workout to everyone. So we could've done it without her and I would probably have worked harder/longer with some company, yes? Yes.
So when I get home, before I forget, I email Laura and tell her that I hope she feels better (I mentioned this twice, so that she wouldn't think I was insensitive to her illness), and that I totally understand the late notice, but may I suggest that maybe she give people the option of showing up, instead of flat canceling the meet up when she cannot make it? I don't think I was out of line in making this suggestion. Then Saturday afternoon, I get a mega-bitchy email from Laura telling me how insensitive I am, that I'm the ONLY one who had an "issue" with her cancellation, that other people were more concerned with her well-being (whereas I didn't care about her and was only concerned about my own workout), that she didn't "formally" cancel the meet by removing it from the website calendar, so, as we're all adults, everyone should have known it wasn't really canceled (despite the email "canceling" the meet up in allcaps) and could have gone anyway. [Huh?] Plus, instead of suggesting that she not cancel a meet up she cannot make, she thinks I should have posted a comment on the website bulletin board (which I know I've never read) suggesting that members go ahead and attend canceled meet ups. (Because that would work, wouldn't it?) AND, what I may have considered a suggestion, she considered criticism, and SHE DIDN'T APPRECIATE IT!
Wow. I think maybe Laura has some issues. Or maybe Laura just doesn't like me. Who knows. I'd like to think she was still violently ill (because now I really don't feel sorry for her cranky ass). I didn't realize we were best buddies, or I was her mommy, so that I was supposed to wring my hands and offer her chicken soup and massive doses of sympathy -- I thought we were acquaintances in a group for the purpose of WORKING OUT and getting fit together and that she had taken on a leadership role. Apparently not -- apparently she is using the group as her social support system or something. Can you imagine if I'd sent her a truly critical email? Whatever Laura's problem may be, I don't need the drama, so I'm skipping this Meet Up group in future. I can work out alone anytime and avoid nasty Laura all the time.
So P90X (BRING IT!), here I come!!!
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